Interview (Audio): Frank Capra

A 1971 interview with writer-director Frank Capra whose movie credits include It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lost Horizon, You Can’t Take It With You, and Meet John Doe. Capra began his career as a gag writer and worked with Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Harry Langdon before transitioning into writing and directing movies for Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures. He called himself the “hoi polloi’s boy” and his movies are known as stories for and about the “common man”.

Capra’s Wikipedia page here.

IMDb page here.